Unit 2  What is happiness to you?

s: i know she was once a gymnast.
t: yes, what’s more?
s: she had an accident during one of her practice vaults and got injured severely.
t: that is a shock to everyone. how did she overcome the difficulties, and how is she now? let’s move to the text.

step ⅱ fast-reading
get the students to read the text quickly and find out the answers to the questions in part a.
t: now go through the text quickly, and answer the questions in part a.
a few minutes later.
t: now who would like to answer the questions?
s: the topic of the tv interview is about the search for happiness.
t: that’s right. next question: what’s the name of the psychologist?
s: the psychologist’s name is dr. brain.
t: good. the last question: when and where was sang lan born?
s: she was born in ningbo, china in 1981.

step ⅲ careful-reading
get the students to read the text carefully and learn more detailed information and then do exercise c.
t: you have done a very good job in answering the three questions. and now i will give you some more minutes to read the text carefully. then try to do true or false questions in c1 on page 20. if the statement is wrong, please try to correct it.
several minutes later, check the answers together.
t: excellent! you have done a very good job.

step ⅳ post-reading
get the students to do exercises c2, d, e and f.
t: now you have got a better understanding of the text. next, let’s do some exercises.
first, ask the students to glance at exercise c2 and d, the read reading part again to finish them.
several minutes later. check the answers together.
t: well done! now let’s look at exercise e. this is a newspaper article about sang lan. i will give you several minutes to complete the article.
several minutes later.
t: shall we check the answers now? i will ask some of you to read the article first.
ask some students to read the article and check the answers together.
t: well done! next let’s talk about exercise f in pairs, and later i’ll ask some of you to show us your dialogue. are you clear?
ss: yes!
give the students enough time to do that. then check the answers.
sample dialogue:
a: have you ever heard about the story of sang lan?
b: yes, of course! she is very famous in gymnastics, which is a dangerous sport, only top athletes should be allowed to try the most difficult moves.
a: why do you think so?
b: because these athletes, who could be chosen to take part in the international games, must be talents in this field. they are trained professionally and practice almost day and night, bearing tiredness, hardship, and other things that we have never thought about.